Although Hard is his first novel, Wayne Hoffman has been a writer
and editor for 15 years. By day, he's a journalist: He is currently
managing editor of the Forward, America's national Jewish
newspaper. Previously, he was senior editor at Billboard, the bible
of the music industry, and a founding editor of the New York Blade,
the largest gay newspaper in the country. His cultural reporting
has appeared in more than 50 publications, including the Washington
Post, the Village Voice, The Nation, The Advocate, the Boston
Phoenix, and the Chicago Sun-Times.
He has also worked on a number of books. He co-edited the
award-winning anthology Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the
Future of AIDS Activism (South End Press). He penned short stories
and personal essays for several more collections, including an
homage to his ex-lover in Boy Meets Boy (St. Martin's), a tale
about intergenerational sex in Generation Q (Alyson), a
conversation with his mother in Mama's Boy (Painted Leaf), and a
story about Princess Diana in Bar Stories (Alyson). He is also a
travel writer; in addition to contributing to several guides, he
authored the 2003 book Fodor's How to Take a Road Trip.
In his spare time, Wayne has marched with Queer Nation, lobbied
Capitol Hill with the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and organized
demonstrations with Sex Panic. He served as associate producer for
the AIDS documentary "Our Brothers, Our Sons," in which he also
appeared. He modeled for the 1998 "Kissing" calendar by the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In 1998, Wayne was named one
of the country's "Best and Brightest Under 30" by the Advocate, the
national gay newsmagazine.
A native of Silver Spring, Maryland, Wayne has lived in Greenwich
Village for the past 10 years. He received his bachelor's degree
from Tufts University in social politics, and his master's degree
from New York University in American studies.
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